Jay Chambers is currently a senior research fellow and a managing director in the education program at the American Institute for Research, where he oversees projects on the economics of education and school finance. Chambers received his doctorate in Economics from Stanford University and is currently serving as president-elect of the American Education Finance Association. His career spans 28 years, during which time he has analyzed spending patterns covering virtually all programs provided in K-12 education.

His work in the past two decades has positioned him to be one of the leading experts on special education funding and expenditure analysis, and he is currently involved in several projects involving analysis of patterns of spending on special education services. He is currently serving as the director of the National Special Education Expenditure Project, conducted under contract with the Office of Special Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education. He is also codirecting (with Tom Parrish) special education spending projects in 11 states. In addition, Chambers is project director for the Milwaukee Public School Special Education Finance Project, which is designed to explore approaches to allocating funds to support special education within the public schools in Milwaukee.

Chambers also serves as the principal investigator for the program expenditure component of the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study funded by the U.S. Department of Education. This project focuses on Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

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